Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Little Lord Fauntleroy

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Frederick Warne & Co, London 1886 First UK Edition Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch with twenty sixengravings, including frontispiece. 8vo. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full blue morocco, one line gilt panel on covers, spine lettered and dated in gilt, with one line panels, decorative corner tools and tooled bands, marbled endleaves, a.e.g. Original pictorial cloth cover bound in at the end. Frances Hodgson Burnett is best remembered for this classic story of a young American boy who discovers he is heir to an English earldom. She wrote it to entertain her two sons and the character of Cedric was based on the youngest, Vivian, who had long golden curls and was often dressed by his mother in velvet knickerbockers and lace collar. The enormous success of the book, and later stage adaptations in London and New York led to a craze for the fashion amongst Victorian mothers. In her biography of Burnett, Ann Thwaite writes of one eight year old boy in Iowa who "burned down his father's barn in protest at being dressed as Little Lord Fauntleroy".

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• bookseller: George Bayntun (GREAT BRITAIN)